Like a good breakfast starts the day, a strong start in Standard often leads to a strong performance at Worlds.

Raphael Levy and Conley Woods square off to see who can keep their Standard records spotless going into the sixth round.

At 4-0, Raphael Levy had both lead off with strong starts that could catapult them to a strong finish, and the winner here would be one round away from a perfect Day 1.

Their decks, despite both being white and blue, were vastly different. Woods continues his recent trend of playing the Team ChannelFireball deck instead of going rogue and is sporting a fairly standard Tempered Steel list. It certainly makes copying the list down easier for this reporter, since it has 73 of 75 cards that Brad Nelson's list had from Round 1.

But the next attack worked out well for Levy, even as he was stuck on three lands. Midnight Haunting ambushed the Nexus and a Signal Pest. He fell to 7 life, but Woods made no follow up, instead choosing to leave Moorland Haunt mana available.

Day of Judgment cleared the board, but Wood's Haunt tokens were able to keep pecking away. Until Gideon Jura came to stand in the way at least. Woods made a third token and took Gideon down to five, but had to then play out the Memnite and Tempered Steel in his hand to have any hope of breaking through the planeswalker brick wall.

Woods tried to keep up with Moorland Haunt Tokes, but Gideon made sure the next several turns were kept on lock-down as a Consecrated Sphinx showed up. In only took two turns of Gideon plus Sphinx to convince Woods to move on to the second game.

It only got worse when Woods attacked with two Inkmoth Nexus and two Glint Hawks the following turn, with Levy on only four mana to answer. Snapcaster Mage on Divine Offering to kill a Nexus helped stem some of the poison, but Woods had a third Nexus to keep the pressure up.

Levy studied the board and his attacks, choosing only to get in with Snapcaster Mage, while Woods kept his eyes squarely on his opponent. With no cards in hand, Woods was running short on resources. A Nexus and a Hawk put Levy to 14 life and 8 poison, and Woods followed up with a Vault Skirge.

Again, however, Woods was able to put Levy on the brink with an attack to nine poison. Cycling through both ends of a Think Twice, Levy might have been feigning weakness to the Nexus, since he was holding Dismember the whole time. However, he found a Ghost Quarter, which took care of the land more efficiently.

However, that allowed Woods an opening to resolve Shrine of Loyal Legions and he followed it up with a Glint Hawk Idol the following turn. Still, Levy had to feel pretty good about getting to turn five without any attacks yet.

Gideon Jura, the bane of Wood's existence earlier in the match, threatened to shut down the board. With only an Idol and an Inkmoth available to attack, Woods would have to find an answer quick.

And he certainly did. Spellbomb became a Myr at the end of Levy's turn, and a Tempered Steel and Mox Opal allowed Woods to kill the Planeswalker on his next attack with the Myr, Idol and Nexus.

A second Glint Hawk Idol turned on the first and Woods attacked Levy down to nine life as Levy shook his head at the sweeper-proof board in front of him. He played a main phase Forbidden Alchemy and shook his head at his draw again. Nothing in the top four gave him any relief, and he extended the hand in the face of a Shrine ready to burst its loyal legions forth.